Random thought of the day
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@anonymous234 said in Random thought of the day:
All text is sans-serif now. Outside old-fashioned newspapers I can't find a single website that uses a serifed font anywhere.
You sought the serifs?
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@Mingan said in Random thought of the day:
@Zecc said in Random thought of the day:
You sought the serifs?
What of the deputy?
Only youuuu... can make all this world seem right
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@anonymous234 said in Random thought of the day:
All text is sans-serif now. Outside old-fashioned newspapers I can't find a single website that uses a serifed font anywhere.
Isn't that because serif fonts are and always have been meant for print only?
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Yeah. But strangely enough, now that high-DPI displays are common and subpixel antialiasing is ubiquitous, it should matter much less than it did in the past.
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@Zerosquare just another example of people adopting a rule without understanding the rationale.
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Twitter is the new RSS. sigh
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@Gąska I don't most people care about that rule, they just think sans-serif looks nicer.
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@Gąska said in Random thought of the day:
@anonymous234 said in Random thought of the day:
All text is sans-serif now. Outside old-fashioned newspapers I can't find a single website that uses a serifed font anywhere.
Isn't that because serif fonts are and always have been meant for print only?
Print nothing. They were originally designed for, and still best suited for, engraving.
With a chisel.
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With work-from-home, companies could now store a permanent video record of everything their employees ever said to each other.
Lawsuit due to data leaks? Find the exact moment some employee said "I temporarily set the password to 123456" 15 years ago and let them take the blame.
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@Gąska said in Random thought of the day:
@anonymous234 said in Random thought of the day:
All text is sans-serif now. Outside old-fashioned newspapers I can't find a single website that uses a serifed font anywhere.
Isn't that because serif fonts are and always have been meant for print only?
No more than any other font. It seems kind of obvious, but all the fonts that were designed before the past few decades were print only by necessity, including sans-serif ones.
But as far as print goes, the conventional wisdom is that serif fonts are ideal for reading long blocks of text, whereas sans-serif is better for headings and titles.
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Have you ever had a problem with your computer hardware, and been in the situation where you don't know if it's the PSU, the motherboard, the RAM, etc. and have no way of knowing without buying one of each? What if there was a company that would ship you a "kit" of one of each of those, and you use them to test your setup and then ship it back?
Random thought #2: should there be a "random business ideas thread"?
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@anonymous234
I mean, the real answer to those situations is to let go of Windows Vista and upgrade to the 203rd decade.
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@anonymous234: who would use such a service?
- not large businesses: they have support contracts.
- not small businesses: buying a replacement PC is generally cheaper than spending time fixing one.
- not the general public: they don't fix their own machines.
- not repair shops: they have the parts already.
- not most hobbyists: they tend to have spare parts or friends they can borrow parts from, and at worst they can order the parts from Amazon and return the unused ones.
What you're left with is a niche of a niche.
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@Zerosquare said in Random thought of the day:
What you're left with is
a niche of a nichepeople who would "forget" to ship back the kit and put it in a niche with all the other freebie stuff.
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@Zerosquare Google says Newegg has a revenue of 2.7 billion USD per year. Seems like a big enough niche to me.
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@anonymous234 said in Random thought of the day:
All text is sans-serif now. Outside old-fashioned newspapers I can't find a single website that uses a serifed font anywhere.
tl;dr: Serif fonts tend to be better for smaller print sizes. However, serif fonts can have display issues at small font sizes on low resolution screens. Though high res screens are becoming more ubiquitous, low res screens are still a concern, so sans-serif fonts dominate the web.
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@anonymous234 said in Random thought of the day:
@Zerosquare Google says Newegg has a revenue of 2.7 billion USD per year. Seems like a big enough niche to me.
But their customer base is much wider and much less specific than the one you're planning to sell to.
Another issue is that processing returns costs money. Having a 100% return rate by design is not a good thing.
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@anonymous234 Also, all the returns are by definition parts that have been used in machines that are half-broken and were very likely operated in non-standard conditions (like, how likely it is that power was properly turned off rather than cables yanked?), so you have to test all parts rather carefully before sending them out again. Especially since your business relies on sending working pieces, if you send a kit with one faulty item in it you're basically making sure that customer is going to hate you because of the time they'll lose finding it out (as opposed to a regular parts seller where a broken part can be quickly replaced without getting too much aggro, at least in most cases).
But other than all of the reasons why it would never work (), this is an excellent idea and I would have loved to have such a service available a couple of months ago, when I had to do exactly what you describe (find out which piece doesn't work, without having replacement components available).
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@Zerosquare said in Random thought of the day:
Having a 100% return rate by design is not a good thing.
I'll call every car renting company and tell them that their business model is "not good". Also Amazon.
Look I'm not saying it's a good business idea, but "it has some operating costs" is not the best criticism.
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@anonymous234 said in Random thought of the day:
@Zerosquare said in Random thought of the day:
Having a 100% return rate by design is not a good thing.
I'll call every car renting company and tell them that their business model is "not good".
Rental cars aren't sent by mail. Rental cars aren't being frankensteined with random parts from broken cars. Rental cars are insured against being crashed by incompetent drivers, for a much higher premium than regular cars (because getting crashed happens much more often to rentals than to regular cars).
Also Amazon.
The ultimate goal of Amazon Wardrobe is for you to keep the one you like and pay the full price for it.
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Also, Amazon can afford it because this service is only a small part of their revenue-generating activities, not their only service.
Regarding car rental, it makes sense because the alternative (buying a car for a few days, then selling it) would be ridiculously expensive. That's much less true in the scenario you're describing.
Hey, I'd like it if the service you described existed, but I really can't see how it would be profitable.
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@Zerosquare said in Random thought of the day:
Also, Amazon can afford it because this service is only a small part of their revenue-generating activities, not their only service.
Also also, clothes are ridiculously cheap to manufacture. The profit from that one blouse you choose can pay for 50 more all by itself.
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@HardwareGeek said in Random thought of the day:
@Mason_Wheeler said in Random thought of the day:
"the legendary film critic duo Siskel & Ebert."The only film critics whose opinions I ever considered to be worth more than .
The Critical Drinker is fun to listen to if nothing else.
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@Benjamin-Hall said in Random thought of the day:
@Zecc said in Random thought of the day:
RTotD: how come donuts are a thing, but dobolts are not?
Fake edit: my cursory web search only found this on reddit:
https://www.reddit.com/r/Showerthoughts/comments/4fdh4h/what_if_there_was_supposed_to_be_a_long_pastry_to/I do love maple bars but these are a better match for this discussion:
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@Gąska said in Random thought of the day:
because getting crashed happens much more often to rentals than to regular cars
No ditch too deep
No curb too tall
My rental car can do it all!
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@boomzilla in a similar vein:
What car can drive up every curb no matter how tall?
Company car.
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@boomzilla said in Random thought of the day:
@Benjamin-Hall said in Random thought of the day:
@Zecc said in Random thought of the day:
RTotD: how come donuts are a thing, but dobolts are not?
Fake edit: my cursory web search only found this on reddit:
https://www.reddit.com/r/Showerthoughts/comments/4fdh4h/what_if_there_was_supposed_to_be_a_long_pastry_to/I do love maple bars but these are a better match for this discussion:
A dobolt with a left-hand thread probably isn't going to match very many donuts.
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@boomzilla said in Random thought of the day:
I remember thinking once that they should really avoid certain kinds of names if the storms are likely to be really destructive. Nobody wants to tell kids that Grandpa was killed by Hurricane Debbie.
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@HardwareGeek said in Random thought of the day:
A dobolt with a left-hand thread probably isn't going to match very many donuts.
At least not the right ones.
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@da-Doctah said in Random thought of the day:
@boomzilla said in Random thought of the day:
I remember thinking once that they should really avoid certain kinds of names if the storms are likely to be really destructive. Nobody wants to tell kids that Grandpa was killed by Hurricane Debbie.
Both my first and middle names have been hurricanes.
Both have been retired.
At least I wasn't named Andrew Floyd.
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RTotD: The human intestine is not well adapted to being a high-pressure gas pipeline.
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So if Tik Tok is basically the same garbage as Vine was, and Vine (with hundreds of millions of users) was discontinued because it didn't bring in enough money, why is Tik Tok worth mega-trillions of dollars?
Also, if this shit gets banned will I stop getting ads for it?
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@Karla said in Random thought of the day:
Both my first and middle names have been hurricanes.
Both have been retired.
Neither my first nor my last name has ever been given to a hurricane, as far as I've been able to tell. Both male names, so you only have to go back to 1979 to check, and first name starts with an R, so there'd need to be eighteen or more in one season for it to even become a possibility
Middle name starts with an H, and it's never made the list either, but there was a major one that got a name just one letter off retired after 1989.
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@da-Doctah said in Random thought of the day:
@Karla said in Random thought of the day:
Both my first and middle names have been hurricanes.
Both have been retired.
Neither my first nor my last name has ever been given to a hurricane, as far as I've been able to tell. Both male names, so you only have to go back to 1979 to check, and first name starts with an R, so there'd need to be eighteen or more in one season for it to even become a possibility
Middle name starts with an H, and it's never made the list either, but there was a major one that got a name just one letter off retired after 1989.
Yeah, R would be a pretty busy hurricane season though I do remember Rita.
Here is the list of retired names that I confirm the male retired names.
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@topspin said in Random thought of the day:
So if Tik Tok is basically the same garbage as Vine was, and Vine (with hundreds of millions of users) was discontinued because it didn't bring in enough money, why is Tik Tok worth mega-trillions of dollars?
Also, if this shit gets banned will I stop getting ads for it?
I don't think Vine ever had hundreds of millions of users, and probably didn't have a bunch of Chinese government tracking either
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@hungrier 200m according to Wikipedia.
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@Karla said in Random thought of the day:
@da-Doctah said in Random thought of the day:
@boomzilla said in Random thought of the day:
I remember thinking once that they should really avoid certain kinds of names if the storms are likely to be really destructive. Nobody wants to tell kids that Grandpa was killed by Hurricane Debbie.
Both my first and middle names have been hurricanes.
Both have been retired.
My first name has been retired. My middle name is unlikely to ever be a hurricane name.
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@boomzilla said in Random thought of the day:
@Karla said in Random thought of the day:
@da-Doctah said in Random thought of the day:
@boomzilla said in Random thought of the day:
I remember thinking once that they should really avoid certain kinds of names if the storms are likely to be really destructive. Nobody wants to tell kids that Grandpa was killed by Hurricane Debbie.
Both my first and middle names have been hurricanes.
Both have been retired.
My first name has been retired. My middle name is unlikely to ever be a hurricane name.
My first name has been retired also. Middle is still possible.
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@HardwareGeek said in Random thought of the day:
RTotD: The human intestine is not well adapted to being a high-pressure gas pipeline.
I remember one Mythbusters episode where they tested whether human stomach could explode from mentos and diet coke. Due to lack of human donors, they settled on the next best thing - a swine stomach. They sealed all holes, filled it with mentos and poured coke inside. It grew like ten times its normal size, but didn't burst.
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@topspin said in Random thought of the day:
So if Tik Tok is basically the same garbage as Vine was, and Vine (with hundreds of millions of users) was discontinued because it didn't bring in enough money, why is Tik Tok worth mega-trillions of dollars?
There was a word for it but I forgot what it was. Something like the Great Tech Startup Bubble?
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@Gąska the Dotcom bubble of 2000?
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@topspin no, the current one.
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@dcon A nickname (that I don't use) of my first name has been retired. A non-English equivalent of my first name is on one of the lists for Eastern North Pacific cyclones but hasn't (yet) been retired. My middle name is not on any list of hurricane or cyclone names.
Relevant TIL post: https://what.thedailywtf.com/post/1730002
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Status: Trying to determine everyone's names who have been hurricanes.
TLDR: Stalking.
When I introduced myself, I would say my name...the hurricane. It probably helped them remember my name, sadly did nothing for my memories of theirs.
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@HardwareGeek None of my names appear on any of the lists. All way too common of names.
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@Karla said in Random thought of the day:
At least I wasn't named Andrew Floyd.
I have two immediate family members with those names, and a third who was born on December 7. If I were a superstitious person I'd be very worried about ill omens on my family!
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@Mason_Wheeler Is the one born 7 December named Pearl?